I find that postgres query planner is quite satisfactory for very difficult use cases. I was able to get 5 years into a startup that wasn't basically trying to be the next Twitter on a 300 dollar postgres tier with heroku. The reduced complexity was so huge we didn't need a team of 10. The cost savings were yuge and I got really good at debugging slow queries to a point of I could tell when postgres would cough at one.My point isn't that this will scale. It's that you can get really really far without complexity and then tack on as needed. This is just another bit of complexity removal for early tech. I'd use this in a heart beat.
jashmatthews|9 months ago